Watch-chatelaine.



PATENTED JUNE 21, 1904.

No. 763,097- I A. BPPLE.

WATGH-UHATELAINE.

APPLICATION FILED T11R84, 1!.903.

H0 MODEL IN YEN 2-021-- WITNEEEEE UNITED STATES Patented June 21, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT EPPLE, OF NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE D. F. BRIGGS COMPANY, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATCH-CHATELAINE.

Z) SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,097, dated June 21, 1904.

Application fil d February 24, 1903. .Serial No. 144,713. (No model.)

1'0 al whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT EPILE, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Attlebore, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Watch-Chatelaines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in watch-chatelaines or chatelaine-pins for securing or fastening a watch to the garment of the wearer.

In watch-chatelaines or chatelaine-pins the watch has heretofore been secured by chains, swivels, hooks, or rings fastened or soldered to the chatelaine. Any of these forms of securing the watch to the chatelaine can be easily bent or broken, with the consequent loss of the watch by accident or other means.

The object of this invention is to do away with any external means for connecting the watch with the chatelaine and secure the watch directly to or in the chatelaine.

To accomplish this, the invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a chatelaine with an opening for the head of a watch and the position of the fastening-pin to lock the head of the watch in the chatelaine, as will be more fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved watch-chatelaine, showing the opening for securing the head of a watch, with the watch shown in broken lines secured and locked in the chatelaine. Fig. 2 is a side view of the chatelaine, showing the lower edge bent outward to form a support for the watch-head and showing the watch in broken lines. Fig. 3 is a view looking at the upper edge of the chatelaine, showing the fastening-pin open.

and the position the head of a watch, shown in broken lines, would assume in entering the opening in the chatelaine. Fig. 4. is a back view of the chatelaine, showing the opening in the chatelaine and the fastening-pin.

In the drawings, a is the frame of my improved watch-chatelaine, which may be of any design and ornamented, if desired, having the outwardly-extending lower edge a and the opening (0 T he opening a is shaped to form the enlarged central opening cffor the crown, 5 the contracted lower opening (0* for thestem, and the still further contracted upper opening a for the ring, of a watch, as shown in Fig. 1. The lower opening (6* extends downward and into the outwardly-extendinglower edge a. Secured to the back of the frame a by solder or other means is the pivoted fastening-pinb in a position to cross the opening a when closed and the hook c for securing the pin.

To secure andlock a Watch in my improved chatelaine, the fastening-pin Z) is unlocked and opened, as shown in Fig. 33 This leaves the opening a free. The head'of the watch is now passed through the opening edgewise 5 from the back, given a quarter-turn, and carried down the opening a and onto the outwardly-extending lower edge a, where it is held by the ring of the watch. The chatelaine is now fastened or pinned to the wear- 7 ing-apparel by the pin 7) and hook 0. This brings the pin across and closes the opening (0 securely locking the watch in the chatelaine.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A watch-chatelaine having an aperture or opening to receive and hold the head of a watch, an outwardly-bent lip on the lower edge of the chatelaine to support the watch, a 30 bar pivoted on the back of the chatelaine and crossing the opening when closed, means for securing the bar in the closed position, and means for fastening the chatelaine to the wearing-apparel. 5

2. In combination, a watch-chatelaine having a frame a with the lower edge a and the opening a shaped to form the enlarged central opening a for the crown, the contracted lower opening (5 for the stem, and the upper 9 opening a for the ring of a Watch, the pivot- I to this specification in thepresence of two subed fastening-pin b secured to the back of the scribing wltne'sses. chatelzune and forming a locking-bar across the opening a and the hook c on the back, to ALBERT EPPLE' 5 secure the locking-bar and pin in the closed Witnesses:

or locked position, as described. ADA E. HAGERTY,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name J. A. MILLER, Jr. 

